– Query Data Store: Monitor and optimize query plans with full history of query execution.

– Native JSON: Parsing & storing of JSON as relational data & exporting relational data to JSON, as it is becoming a popular format to store NoSQL/Unstructured data, Demo video.

–> Security Upgrades:

– Always Encrypted: Help protect data at rest and in motion with the master key residing with the application & no application changes required.

– Row Level Security: Customers can implement Row-level Security on databases to enable implementation of fine-grained access control over rows in a database table for greater control over which users can access which data, demo video.